Comics Britannia - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
The Fun Factory
Comics Britannia explores a golden age when children's humour comics sold in their millions. Oscar-winning animator Nick Park, cartoonist Steve Bell, children's laureate Michael Rosen and writer Jacqueline Wilson confess their lifelong passion for the comic strips of childhood.
Boys and Girls
Armando Iannucci presents a series which explores the history of British comics. He looks at boys' and girls' adventure comics of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, from Dan Dare, Captain Hurricane and Roy of the Rovers to the distressed damsels of Bunty, Girl and School Friend. Fans such as cartoonists Posy Simmonds and Gerald Scarfe, writers Max Hastings and Jacqueline Wilson and comedian Frank Skinner reveal their favourite comics characters.
X-Rated: Anarchy in the UK
Armando Iannucci presents a series which explores the history of British comics.
He looks at the new characters and strips which emerged in the 1970s and 80s to appeal to an older, more adult readership of comics, from Judge Dredd and Tank Girl to Viz and Watchmen.
At the forefront of this comics uprising was writer Alan Moore, who reads from his works such as V for Vendetta and talks about his latest graphic novel, the controversial Lost Girls.
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